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Is there a good free equivalent of SF Mono with which I could use this? I believe the license for SF Mono restricts usage to non commercial iOS / macOS work.
by gorgoiler 7y ago
Is there a good free equivalent of SF Mono with which I could use this? I believe the license for SF Mono restricts usage to non commercial iOS / macOS work.
It’s my favourite typeface for code by far. I enjoy the sort of 1980s “Unix Manual” width of it. Sort of like the writing on architecture plans, which in the last would have been drawn by a plotter.
The face in Carbon is close but had too many distracting letter forms for presenting content.
- saagarjha 7y agoI like Menlo as a fallback; it’s fairly clean and not particularly flashy. I’ll admit I haven’t looked at the licensing for it though; I know it ships with macOS and is almost certainly under a less restrictive license than SF Mono but it might not be as usable as you’d like. I think it’s based on DejaVu which is fairly permissive if you’re OK with a similar (if slightly less polished, IMO) font.
- baddox 7y agoI don’t know much about typefaces, but Roboto Mono looks fairly similar to me.
- Bishonen88 7y agoPerhaps not suuuper alike, but I found the jetbrains font to actually be awesome: https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/ https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/
- imedadel 7y agoSurprisingly, setting JetBrains Mono to 13px in the editor is still way more readable than any other font. Especially on Windows.